Plant Details

Accepted name:: Quercus velutina Lam. [Fagaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
black oak	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 26 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Quercus discolor Aiton Hort. Kew. 3: 358 (1789).
Quercus tinctoria W.Bartram Travels Carolina, ed. 2: 37 (1794).
Quercus coccinea var. nigrescens A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 61 (1864).
Quercus coccinea var. tinctoria (W.Bartram) A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 61 (1864).
Quercus leiodermis Ashe J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 40: 43 (1924).
Quercus macrophylla var. albertsii de Vos Bered. Woordenboek: 97 (1867).
Quercus magnifica Dippel Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 122 (1891), not validly publ.
Quercus missouriensis Ashe Bull. Charleston Mus. 13: 28 (1917).
Quercus rubra var. tinctoria (W.Bartram) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 642 (1891).
Quercus tinctoria var. angulosa Michx. Hist. Chênes Amér. 13(1): 24 (1801).
Quercus tinctoria var. macrophylla Dippel Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 122 (1891).
Quercus tinctoria var. magnifica Dippel Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 122 (1891).
Quercus tinctoria var. nobilis Dippel Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 122 (1891).
Quercus tinctoria var. pseudoxalapensis Ettingsh. & Krašan Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 56(1): t. 13 (1889).
Quercus tinctoria var. sinuosa Michx. Hist. Chênes Amér. 2: 198 (1801).
Quercus valentina Lam. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 1: 675 (1821), pro syn.
Quercus velutina f. angulosa (Michx.) Trel. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 198 (1924).
Quercus velutina f. dilaniata Trel. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 197 (1924).
Quercus velutina var. macrophylla (Dippel) Trel. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 198 (1924).
Quercus velutina f. magnifica (Dippel) Trel. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 198 (1924).
Quercus velutina f. missouriensis (Ashe) Trel. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 197 (1924).
Quercus velutina var. missouriensis (Ashe) Sarg. Man. Trees, ed. 2: 239 (1922).
Quercus velutina f. nobilis (Dippel) Trel. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 198 (1924).
Quercus velutina f. obovata Trel. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 198 (1924).
Quercus velutina f. pagodiformis Trel. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 197 (1924).
Quercus velutina f. sinuosa (Michx.) Trel. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 198 (1924).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Quercus discolor Aiton	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Quercus tinctoria	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Quercus tinctoria Bartr.	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Quercus vellutina Lamarck	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Quercus velutina Lam.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Quercus velutina Lamarck	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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